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Kim Zeiss, right, helps her daughter, Madison, 10, with her homework as Kim's son, Jake, 9, practices goal keeping with the Junior Kings hockey team Friday, Jan. 14, 2005, at Health South training facility in El Segundo, Calif. The Zeiss family is one of 32 Los Angeles families in a study of the modern American family by UCLA scientists. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

Mom’s market worth? $65,284 a year (with hugs still free)

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Illustration on misreporting on the economy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DONALD LAMBRO: Media downplay joblessness

By Donald Lambro

The Death of Jobs Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

DONALD LAMBRO: Job numbers worse than they seem

By Donald Lambro

It's election time, which means President Obama's speech material includes references to God and jobs. (Associated press)

LAMBRO: ‘It’s (still) the economy, stupid’

By Donald Lambro

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, Luis Mendez, 23, left, and Maurice Mike, 23, wait in line at a job fair held by the Miami Marlins, at Marlins Park in Miami. Employers added a scant 74,000 jobs in December after averaging 214,000 in the previous four months. The Labor Department said Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, that the unemployment rate fell from 7 percent in November to 6.7 percent, its lowest level since October 2008. But the drop occurred mostly because many Americans stopped looking for jobs. Once people without jobs stop looking for one, the government no longer counts them as unemployed. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

URBAN: The soft bigotry of low economic expectations

By William Urban

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Dec. 12 2012, photo, Taneshia Wright, of Manhattan, fills out a job application during a job fair in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

EDITORIAL: When ‘good’ news is bad news

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LAMBRO: Wishing for war?

By Donald Lambro

** FILE ** In this March 5, 2009, file photo, job seekers join a line of hundreds of people at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com in New York. The Labor Department said Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, that the number of people seeking jobless benefits jumped sharply last week, after two straight weeks of declines. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

Male immigrants, illegals have lower unemployment than American-born men: Report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Illustration: Death of jobs by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Casualties in the jobs war

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sheila Bird (right) waits in line for employment interviews at a Aug. 17, 2012, job fair at City Target in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

Report: U.S. jobless rate one of the worst in industrialized world

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Obama (right) and his chief of staff, Jack Lew, confer. Mr. Lew, who previously served as the president's Office of Management and Budget chief, is said to be under consideration for Treasury secretary. (Associated Press)

LAMBRO: Another lost year for America’s workers

By Donald Lambro and - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 27, 2006, file photo, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch addresses students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Officials reject conspiracies on unemployment rate

By Christopher S. Rugaber and Scott Mayerowitz - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2011 file photo, Rep. Allen West, R-Fla. talks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conspiracy theorists came out in force Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, after the government reported a sudden drop in the U.S. unemployment rate one month before Election Day. West agreed with former GE CEO Jack Welch's skepticism of the Labor Department's announcement that the unemployment rate had fallen to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent the month before. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Steep drop in unemployment rate spawns conspiracy

By Christopher S. Rugaber and Scott Mayerowitz - Associated Press

**FILE** Labor Secretary Hilda Solis speaks Aug. 30, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s fudged unemployment numbers

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Maryland lost 10,000 jobs in 2012, tops in U.S., feds say

By Shannon Odell - The Washington Times

Illustration Unemployment by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

FERRARA: U.S. still stuck in recession

By Peter Ferrara

Illustration: O Jobs by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama’s dishonest jobs math

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times